THE EXECUTIVE WIFE: The Facts Contradict the Fiction

IN the current folklore of U.S.
business the wife of an executive is often represented as being equally
important to her husband's career as his own abilities. Some U.S.
corporations have taken to interviewing wives before hiring or
promoting executives, others regularly appraise executive wives by
visits to the home or at corporate parties. A few even provide seminars
and conferences for wives in an attempt to fashion the ideal executive
helpmate. All this has prompted a string of articles, fiction and
movies depicting the ideal "Mrs. Executive" a woman...